Jon Reads Comics

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24 Turtle Power Hour — Adventures 19 and TMNT 12 Oct 26, 2025

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Layne, Clinton, and Jon meet Mr. Null and have David Bowie on their minds as they discuss “The Man Who Sold the World” in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures 19 from Archie Comics and then the Turtles confront MAGA crap in Mirage’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 12!

113 Ninjas ‘n’ Bots — TF Ironhide 1, Wreckers 5 Oct 25, 2025

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Layne and Jon are reunited with the dearly departed in IDW’s The Transformers: Ironhide 1; and then it’s time for all the secrets to be laid bare in Transformers: Last Stand of the Wreckers 5, both from 2010!

2.21 Babylon 5: Thirty Years Later — Comes the Inquisitor Oct 25, 2025

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Jon and Blaine discuss Delenn’s encounter with an unexpected Vorlon agent.

Please note: due to unforeseen circumstances and technical difficulties, Blaine’s audio occasionally drops out. His comments are still comprehensible, but the audio quality is not where we like it to be.

2.20 Babylon 5: Thirty Years Later — The Long, Twilight Struggle Oct 18, 2025

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Jon and Blaine look at the end of the Narn/Centauri War.

112 Ninjas ‘n’ Bots — TMNT 43 Oct 18, 2025

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Layne and Jon are up against Shredder’s Football, Krang’s stone soldiers and Baxter Stockman’s imminent and inevitable betrayal as they discuss the third part of Attack on Technodrome in IDW’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 43 from 2015!

2.19 Babylon 5: Thirty Years Later — Divided Loyalties Oct 11, 2025

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Jon and Blaine examine the possibility of a Psi Corps mole on the station.

111 Ninjas ‘n’ Bots — TF 6, Prowl Oct 11, 2025

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Layne and Jon check in on a day in the life of their not-so-favorite botcop in Transformers Spotlight: Prowl and then finish their first arc of the new series in The Transformers 6, both from IDW in 2010!

23 Turtle Power Hour — Adventures 18 and Challenges Oct 05, 2025

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Layne, Clinton, and Jon meet a new skater dude named Mondo Gecko in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures 18 from Archie Comics. Then it’s a jump over to Mirage for a collection of solo spotlight short stories called Challenges!

110 Ninjas ‘n’ Bots — TMNT 42 Oct 04, 2025

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Layne and Jon head to Burnow Island for the second part of Attack on Technodrome in IDW’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 42 from 2015!

109 Ninjas ‘n’ Bots — TF 5, Wreckers 4 Sep 27, 2025

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Layne and Jon enjoy a couple of penultimate chapters, with IDW’s The Transformers 5 and Last Stand of the Wreckers from 2010!h